[mod_python] database connection

Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> 
> On 16/10/2005, at 9:05 PM, Julien Cigar wrote:
> 
>>> In other words, that you can specify a '/' like you are is quite 
>>> specific
>>> to the current mod_python implementation of apache.import_module(). 
>>> Well,
>>> that is what I thought ......
>>>
>>> At this point I am a bit confused as I can't find anything in the 
>>> mod_python
>>> code which would even allow '/' to work. When I even try using it on my
>>> platform, Python throws an exception:
>>>
>>>   ImportError: No module named pages/page1
>>>
>>> What version of mod_python are you using, what version of Python and 
>>> what
>>> platform? I don't understand how it could be working for you.
>>>
>> I'm using mod_python version 3.1.3 on a Debian Linux platform (kernel 
>> 2.6.12) with Python 2.3
>> A small piece of my code can be found on 
>> http://rafb.net/paste/results/9sjUSi95.html
> 
> 
> Interesting. I just got onto a Linux system as well and tried __import__
> and it does actually work for '/'. Ie.,
> 
> Python 2.3.3 (#1, May  7 2004, 10:31:40)
> [GCC 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> __import__('pages/page1')
> hi
> <module 'pages/page1' from 'pages/page1.pyc'>
>  >>> __import__('pages.page1')
> hi
> <module 'pages' from 'pages/__init__.pyc'>
> 
> Yet the same thing on Mac OS X doesn't work:
> 
> Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> __import__('pages/page1')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named pages/page1
>  >>> __import__('pages.page1')
> page1
> <module 'pages' from 'pages/__init__.pyc'>
> 
> Looks like it may work for you on Linux, but doesn't look like it is going
> to be portable to other platforms.
> 
> Will be interesting to see what other platforms do.

FreeBSD 5.4:

Python 2.4.1 (#2, Jul  7 2005, 19:02:14)
[GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> __import__('pages/page1')
<module 'pages/page1' from 'pages/page1.py'>

Python 2.4.1 (#2, Jul  7 2005, 19:02:14)
[GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> __import__('pages.page1')
<module 'pages' from 'pages/__init__.py'>


Jim